that sentence saying it was far too short given the crime committed. we have live team coverage tonight with reporters in position here in the bay area and in los angeles. we will go to rita williams who was in the courtroom when mehserle was sentenced, good evening rita. >> reporter: needles >> reporter: need less to say it was a very emotional 4-1/2 hours inside this courtroom today. former bart police officer mehserle came into court this morning looking just like this. his hands shackled at his waist, this time in front wearing the high security orange jail jump suit. he scared straight ahead not looking at the five relatives of oscar grant. we told the judge the impact the killing has had on them and asking for the maximum sentence

of 14 years. an aunt, an uncle and sophina mason saying, i have to go to the grave site now to see grant. grant's mother wanda johnson, quote how do you explain this to all the people of color who face brutality. i love every day of my life in pain. then mehserle stood and read a statement. it's tough for me to admit failure but that's exactly what happened. i wish i could bring mr. grant back. i am truly sorry my actions took the life of a son, a father, a brother. i hope some day they will be able to forgive me. then repeating part of what he told me in jail last week. >> i didn't want this at all.

and i know they didn't want this -- and i will forever be sorry for what happened. >> reporter: robert perry then threw out the jury's gun enhancement. saying there was not enough evidence to show that mehserle intended to use his gun and not his taser. it could have been four years, he sentenced mehserle to two years for involuntary manslaughter. with credit already served in jail, 292 days, that means mehserle could be released from state prison in six or seven months. reporting live in los angeles, rita williams ktvu channel 2 news. reaction to the judge's decision today was swift and it continues to grow. we heard from oscar grant's family members pretty soon after the judge ruled on the sentencing. our claudine wong was the first one to bring us the news of the sentence. she is live now right outside

that l.a. courthouse with more. claudine-- >> reporter: gasia, there's no doubt that the grant family is disappointed and frustrated and angry about this sentence. in contrast mehserle's attorney says his client was given great hope today in that courtroom. >> we want justice for oscar grant. >> reporter: outside the courthouse there was passion and emotion that grew seemingly by the minute. as the sentencing hearing took place inside, our cameras watched as punches were thrown between people outside the courthouse. we don't know what happened but it ended with several people detained by police. inside one person was kicked out of court after an outburst there. after sentencing, family and friends of oscar grant gathered and his uncle talked angrily about the system he says failed. >> judge perry said it was clear that oscar was resisting arrest. so the system is saying, yes,

oscar is at fault. >> reporter: upstairs there was a far different scene. michael rain said he won't rest until his client is free. but he also said mehserle said he was given great hope today and feels closer than ever to being free and once again seeing his son. >> he wanted to give his family a hug, that wasn't possible but he asked me to do that for him. >> reporter: the protest continued, but even as grant supporters vowed to continue fighting, the weight of today's decision was easy to see. >> i hope the department of justice steps in. i hope. i don't know, right now i feel like an elephant is on my head. i don't know i feel so let down. >> reporter: so mehserle is now back in the los angeles county jail shortly after the sentencing. the grant family and friends also left. we're told some are likely already back in oakland. live here in los angeles, claudine wong, ktvu channel two news. it was the office of

alameda county district attorney o' malley that prosecuted mehserle. he gave us this statement, we need to assess what the judge has legally done. we're waiting for our lawyers to come back from los angeles. look at the record, look to assess what the options are, we'll decide where to go from there. the city of oakland has been bracing for what might happen in reaction to today's news. john sasaki is live waiting to see what may happen. >> reporter: that is an agitated crowd of hundreds of people outside of city hall that has been growing all day in strength and numbers. the sentence has left many of them feeling that they cannot find justice in this country unless they resort to extreme measures. >> it's a pattern. why are the people who get killed in these street, why are

they all african american males. >> reporter: some who stopped by just to watch -- >> i believe that oscar grant was murdered. there's a taser and there's a gun. isn't there a weight difference them? >> a lot of times you have to resort to violence to wake people up. sometimes peace just doesn't work. compromise doesn't work. i mean that man died violently. okay he didn't die peacefully. so where's the justice there? >> reporter: oakland police are out in force along with officers from agencies around the bay area to try to stop any violence from happening. jane bruner said the city wasn't taking any chances and

closing city hall at 8:00. >> i think we're just taking precautions because the last rally did not end very well. so we're just getting staff home early in case there's any problems. >> reporter: i spoke to a retired officer he told me that he didn't think anything was going to happen tonight. anything was going to go out of control based on what he saw in the crowd. but about five minutes ago, he told me i might be changing that view because he did see some things that things might actually happen. i'm john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. oscar grant's family said after the sentence that mehserle did not apologize directly to them. >> when rita williams from ktvu did an interview, allowing him to apologize, he not one time in any of those exclusive interview, we're talking about for almost a week, acknowledged

the family or everyone stated he was sorry. >> here is what mehserle said during his interview last month with rita. >> i can't say how sorry i am enough. because there's nothing i can say or do that would ever bring him back and i understand that. you know i value human life and i value life. >> once again that was rita williams exclusive interview with mehserle which we aired last week on ktvu channel 2 news. oakland city leaders are calling for calm while acknowledging there is unrest in people's hearts and minds. >> reporter: the city of oakland is presenting a united front with the mayor and police chief calling for piece. in a press conference this afternoon, police chief bats said officers will do all they can to keep the area safe. and reminded oakland residents quote, this is our city where we live, work and go to school.

officers guarded oakland's emergency operation today which has become command headquarters for all violence prevention efforts. mayor ron dellums says that people should look to oscar grant's family to decide whether justice has been done. >> it's very clear to me in observing the response of the family that this judgment was met with anger, was met with disaappointment, was met with great pain and extraordinary hurt -- disappointment. the major said he understand but asked for peace tonight. >> it is still my hope that people will express their anger, will express their disappointment, their outrage, their pain in a manner that is nonviolent, in a manner that is not destructive to our community. >> reporter: as you can see from the air, oakland officers

are already out in a large show of force with police cars driving into position. police chief anthony bats said although people are -- to free speech, officers will be out in full force. oakland police are not commenting officially on the strength of their numbers or outside assistance. but ktvu has learned over 18 outside agencies are ready and waiting to help oakland officers if necessary. some are already rolling into town while others are on stand by. this is a night law enforcement is very ready to take on. live in the newsroom, priya davis clemens. with memories still fresh

of the violence after mehserle's court appearance, business are already prepared. today business closed early, many are boarded up. jana katsuyama will bring us a report on how business owners prepared. and also one business owners who said he wasn't going to be intimidated and he will remain open tonight. mehserle could serve a few months behind bars then be released on parol. as we continue to follow developments, you can find the latest online any time just by going to ktvu.com. when you're there just click on the mehserle tab on our front page. police say they have a suspect in the killing of a well known san francisco woman. find out what disguise they say he used to get into her

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we are learning new information about the killing of a writer and publicist in san francisco. police say the suspect used a disguise to get inside her apartment. authories are also releasing the sketch and telling us that the suspect may have been injured during the killer. david steveson is live in the city tonight with more on this -- david stevenson is live in the city with more on this. >> reporter: police released this sketch on a man who resembles the suspect. they say he dressed as a utility worker to gain entry to her apartment. >> it's terrifying and yeah, it does not make my feel good about walking by ourselves right now. >> reporter: 46-year-old san. san fran sims cowriter and

publicist was killed in her own apartment. >> person of interest is a white male in his late 30s. >> reporter: the suspect responded at about 6:15 sunday night. investigators say he wore a hard hat, a green safety vest and utility belt and carried a tool box. >> the suspect posed as a utility worker to gain access into the building. the suspect knocked on several doors under the guides of checking for a gas leak. >> reporter: harran was killed in her apartment. she had just returned from a trip to argentina with her mother. >> she just spent about a week and a half with her mother traveling. and of course her mother is devastated because she's going what if i would have stayed, what if i would have done this. >> reporter: investigators say they've recovered several items

stolen from harran's apartment and say there are other clues that may help the public spot the suspect. >> the suspect may have suffered an injury to his left hand. this hand may be heavily bandaged in some fashion. >> reporter: pg & e told us this afternoon that they had no crews in the area. investigators are asking anyone who may have seen a man resembling the suspect in this sketch to call police. firefighters are battling a two alarm fire at a church. the fire is in the 22,000 block of meckland avenue east. the hayward spanish seventh day

adventist church is heavily damaged. -- authorities say the man was walking with another man who was able to get out of the way. there were 53 passengers on the train. none of them were injured, all were transferred to another plane. that section of track has been closed for the investigation causing delays along the capital corridor. that's the line from the bay area to sacramento. >> it's starting to feel a little bit like rain out there. the forecast has been changing through the week. >> yeah, it really has. we had the big heat early in the week. it was very warm. 80s, almost 90s in some of the warm spots. and now we have more clouds. i want to show you where we are right now. you see the bay area right here. i'll throw a circle over that. these clouds are pretty much fair weather clouds. they are just high filter clouds. here is tomorrow's actions. all of this is going to rotate through.

that's not bad. that's saturday, here's your sunday out here. that's a significant weather system and it wants to roll in here as we get into saturday night and sunday. it's going to be wet on sunday. i think tomorrow we're going to be okay. let's take a peak at this. what we have is partly cloudy conditions tonight. maybe a little fog. rain returns this weekend as we go in the long rain forecast, more rain in the middle of next week. season is changing, we're going to fall back on saturday night. all right, we're going to change the clocks back an hour. santa rosa 49, 48 in napa. a lot of moisture in the air, the forecast and for rainfall, the south bay .4 in the north bay 1.5. if you get a half inch in san francisco i consider that a good storm. and in the sierra there's a winter storm in effect. you get the picture we're heading back into a wet pattern. all the stories you heard about

a drought, looks pretty good now. the pacifica is active. here's the system as it increases clouds tomorrow. partly cloudy, partly sunny. when i come back i'm going to show you the latest computer model and what it says for timing on that system. we'll be back here in a few minutes. it was rock star treatment for one of the heros of the san francisco giants play off run today. >> looks like the parade rout all over again. but this was actually the scene inside the mayc's men store in san francisco. that's where cody ross was on hand to sign photographs. a chance to meet the giant's outfielder went to the first 300 customers who bought $25 worth of championship gear. >> they've been waiting a long time for it. it's just nice to do it for them. it's special to me and to all my teammates. it's been an incredible experience. >> ross was the mvp of the national league championship series. president obama is on his

way to india to begin a 10 day trip to asian. the president and first lady left maryland this morning. the trip will also include spots in south korea, japan and indonesia. the president says a major goal of his trip is opening up business opportunities for american companies in asian. some election day ballots that were stolen from a polling place have now been found. wait till you hear where they turned up and what has to happen to them now. nancy pelosi is rejecting calls to step down from democratic leadership, what she reveals she wants to do instead. does don p era ta have the votes it takes to become mayor of oakland? we have just received a very important update from the alameda county registrar of voters. tonight at 6:00, an east bay city launches a brand new way of voting. but how is it working? we're looking into how ranked choice voting has changed the election. and continuing coverage in the growing protest in oakland.

we have crews all other this city, and we're bring you new developments the mehserlely sentencing -- we have crews all over this city. and we'll bring you new developments from the mehserle sentencing.

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in election 2010 it appears that city councilwoman jean quan made oakland's new mayor. perrata did not get 50% plus one vote. so the registrar of voters began tallying the voters second and third choices and eliminating candidates with the fewest votes. the unofficial count shows quan

with 50% of votes. house speaker nancy pelosi rejected calls for her to leave the democratic leadership and announced that she will in fact, try to retain the minor leadership position. some political analysts disagree. >> she has proven to be the most effective speaker, i believe in our lifetime in getting things done. i mean, there's 400 something bills in the senate that she got pass in the house that the senate has enacted on. >> pelosi made her announcement

via twitter saying she is driven by the need of creating jobs. president hillary clinton says that the united states will one day have a woman president but it won't be hear. she announced she will not run in 2012. it's widely expected she will not run against president obama in the democratic primaries in 2012. she has said that she is very happen by with her current job as secretary of state. the ballots that disappeared from a san francisco polling place on election day have been found. a park worker discovered those ballots floating in a pond. bradfield nicholas pleaded not guilty to two counts of tampering with ballots. it's unclear if those ball

ballots will be counted. some business owners are taking precautions to stay safe. we'll explain. the latest national unemployment statistics are out and they are looking good. but how good are they for california in i'm consumer editor tom vacar, a reality check still ahead. we reveal where bay area stimulus money was spent. sunday on the 10:00 news, complete bay area coverage.

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which take a life every six point five seconds. don't be big tobacco's next victim. live pictures of city hall in downtown oakland where you can see a number of people have gathered. they've set up a microphone there and people are talking about how angry they are about the sentencing today for mehserle. a lot of police on hand determined to keep this rally peaceful. more now on what we learned

this afternoon. that a los angeles judge sentenced mehserle to two years in prison with credit for time served. the judge threw out the gun enhancement in mehserle's conviction. that left the sentence for just involuntary manslaughter. the judge sentenced mehserle for the minimum sentence for that conviction, two years. the sentence for manslaughter alone without the gun enhancement is four years. i drove up broadway this afternoon, i counted more than 20 business that have already been boarded up on broadway alone. jana katsuyama is live with how worried business owners are tonight. >> reporter: pretty worried. right now things are calm now along telegraph. many business are already s hutdown. this is city dental, they said

they started getting cancellations at noon today. you said you counted 20, i'm sure there's many more that shutdown today. >> another hour we'll be leaving. because i think we have no business after this. >> reporter: along telegraph, broadway and other streets downtown people took precautions, boarding up windows and putting up metal gates remembering the damage after the day mehserle's court date was announced. on 17th street, boards on windows made for a blank canvas for a mural. >> we want to use this as an opportunity to speak to the community through art. >> what i'm saying is for

people who have been slain by police in brutality cases. >> we're open and we plan to be open throughout the day unless something happens out there. >> reporter: police have posted these signs throughout the downtown area saying no parking until 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. we've seen police officers from monterey and salinas and oakland police telling us that they are going to move in quickly if there is any trouble to make sure all of these stores are safe. reporting live in oakland, jana katsuyama, ktvu channel 2 news. back now to our live pictures from above oakland. you can see there's a number of people there. we should el emphasize that so far everything has been pretty peaceful. people have been going up to the pie microphone and speaking about how angry they are about the mehserle

sentencing. there are hundreds of police officers on the scene. a lot of them out of sight. the objective for the oakland police department is obviously to keep things peaceful. says they're going to give these protesters their space. we'll try to keep them in a specific area, but if they decide to march again, they're going to do nothing to try and provoke them. but if anyone gets out of hand, that is when the police department says it will crack down. here's what's next for mehserle. egg experts say that with credit for time serves mehserle could serve another six months and then be released for parol. you can follow the story, go to ktvu.com. the labor department released it's monthly employment report today and it showed the largest increase in jobs since april. companies added more than 150,000 jobs last month. mostly in health care, retail and business services. on the downside, the unemployment rate held steady

at 9.6%. ktvu's consumer editor tom vacar is live now in alameda with a look inside these numbers, tom. >> reporter: actually we're in san francisco tom. , frank. but here is what's really important. san francisco has another reality, massive work projects are really the only way california can hope to recover. >> it's definitely good news, the patient has stop bleeding but the job situation is still in intensive care. >> reporter: we need better kinds of jobs. >> the largest sector is temporary employment. the second retail jobs which tend to be low paying. >> i have to wait to see to believe it because it depends on where those jobs are at and

if you are educated to have those jobs. >> the freeze we've had in my organization has started to flow and we're bringing more people in. >> to get back to 5% unemployment at this rate would take us two decades. >> for the last couple of months california has kept falling further and further behind the rest of the nation. >> reporter: california's inability to pass a budget has hurt the state economy. nothing has been hit as hard and long as construction. >> construction has been complete free fall since late 2006. in late 2006 we had over 960,000 construction jobs, this

past month we're under 530,000. we've lost over 450,000 jobs in the past year. >> our economy is probably on the worse situation than the nation overall. >> i don't feel we've turned the corner yet, i think there's a long time to go. i don't think we're going to get there with the new legislature in washington. california's latest numbers will be outs in a couple of weeks but don't look for any sunshine there. reporting live, consumer editor tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. according to president obama the new job figures are good but not good enough. the president says the new jobs are more than double what analysts say they were expecting but hiring remains far too weak to drive down unemployment. >> the simple fact is an encouraging jobs report doesn't make a difference if you are still one of the millions of the people who are looking for work. and i won't be satisfied until everybody who is looking for a job can find one.

>> president oe obama says he will consider any proposal from democrats or republicans that will put people back to work. on wall street stocks barely moved today. stocks edged only slightly higher by the end of the day after some big games earlier in the week when the federal reserve announced a $600 billion stimulus. the dow closed up almost 10 points to 11,444. the nasdaq was up by less than two points closing the day at 2,578. for more financial and consumers news go to ktvu.com and click on the business tab. a warning is going out tonight, what the california department of alcohol beverage report wants you to know before you answer the phone. caught on camera, what police say is so unusual about the people in this surveillance video and the crimes they committed. we learned late this afternoon about a break in a

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oakland police say that two men ran away from their vehicle after smashing their car into a home. police are still investigating

what caused this crash. vallejo police are searching for three young robbers. investigators say what's unusual here is that all three of them are females. investigators say the three have robbed at least four victims including this attack that was captured on a surveillance camera. watch what happens here, the victims have included a 13-year- old girl and three women who were middle age or elderly. >> i can't say that these type of incidents never happened before. but it is highly unusual in a sense that all of our victims are usually elderly, handicapped and the fact that the suspects are females is a little bit unusual as well. >> witnesses describe the robbers as black females 17 to 19 years old, 5'2" to 5'5" tall. police say in each case they got away in a grey 1980s volvo. alameda police have arrested one man but are still looking for another one in the

case of a woman who had a yorkshire terrier taken from her. officers say that he told them that he had sold the dog to someone who didn't know it was stolen. they are also still looking for the dog as well as the other man. bay area residents are being warned tonight of a possible phone scam. the california department of alcohol -- the caller says the money will go toward cracking down on sales of alcohol to minors. the agency says it does enforce underaged drinking laws but never asks for donations. her mercedes benz announced today that it is recalling vehicles because of a leaky filter. the 2011 gl class m class and r

cross suvs vehicles. dealers will replace the fuel filter free of charge. does it seem too soon to you? christmas is already here in one bay area shopping mall. and tracking a storm, it's going to impact your weekend. i'll tell you which days will be the wettest and which cities. an east bay city launches a brand new way of voting but how is it working? and we'll bring you new developments as people protest the mehserle verdict.

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a salmonellaa outbreak over the summer prompted a recall. now the usta says it has a novel solution where food inspectors are overwhelmed. john fowler investigates. >> reporter: up and down the aisles how do you know the food is safe. shoppers says the scary not knowing the fda is on top of it. >> how many recalls did we have last year? i counted 12. >> reporter: at kimballs village market. produce, meat and dairy are local on handshake agreements. >> if you want to continue doing business with us, you must bring us the best quality we can get.

>> reporter: knowing the suppliers personally may work well for small markets, but large superchains may buy from a different producer every single week. so now what? >> the burden of this is actually on the buyer. >> reporter: mossman heads iseck. his clients are big retailers, wal-mart, cosco, safeway and more. >> just faxing and moving documents around. >> you make it easier for them? >> we do. >> reporter: engineers call it facebook not logbooks. >> you would be managing it in a filing cabinet. >> reporter: but this is an online realtime data base shared by buyers and suppliers who are monitored 24/7 for compliance. he claims not one of his clients received tainted eggs in those salmonella scare that

sickened thousands across the country. >> buyers purchased from them not knowing that it was crew. >> reporter: icix shows shows compliance at a glance. no compliance, no purchase. >> when you globalize, you increase the risk certainly in the system. certainly harder to track. >> reporter: this graph tracks a recent recall. icix says products are removed from shelfs in hours not days. you may soon see compliance stickers at big retailers who sign on with icix. the company says it's not replacing government, just filling a loophole. john fowler, ktvu. a new study suggests your chances of becoming overweight depend on the company you keep. having four obese friends

doubled a person's chance of becoming obese compared to a person with no obese friends. researchers said that other lifestyle factors such as style and physical activity are the key factors in weight gain. continuing coverage on the mehserle sentencing today and the concern as protesters gather in downtown oakland. we have crews deployed in oakland and in southern california. we're keeping a close eye on the crowds especially as nightfall approaches. and we have a series of reports on what police are saying. and we'll get more from rita williams. she was in the courtroom today when the sentence was read. and we'll see what this means for mehserle. a real sign of the times. the incredible number of people who are expected to show up tomorrow just to register for a free food give away. the figure is staggering. we'll see you at 6:00. if you're headed to san

francisco union squares you will see one of the looming signs of the upcoming season. crews were working on the macy's christmas tree for this season. the day after thanksgiving at they will hold a ceremony at 6:00 p.m. the weekend is just around here so let's talk about weather and it sounds like changes are in store, what do you think bill? >> changes in store, frank, as we move into the weekend. we talked about it all week,

nice beagaining beginning to the week. where we're going to see our partly cloudy conditions tomorrow. that's your tomorrow right here. because it's all moving this way. this is the system i'm tracking up here, that thing gets in here on saturday night into sunday. and it's going to rain. so here's how it looks. westerly take -- we'll take a look at the latest data. clouds increasing tomorrow. tomorrow is not a bad day, you'll get things done. soccer, hikes what have you. sunday it's going to be wet. it's going to rain. half inch in the san francisco. quarter inch in oakland. an inch of rain up toward santa rosa. 1-1/2 in santa rosa. sunday is going to be the day when you don't get much done. here we go saturday, nice no

rains. moving, it's moving. sunday, saturday night stop it there but you see it showing up. now we get saturday night late about 10:00, 11:00 early sunday morning you're into it. that's rain, and it's all the way into san jose. 1-1/2 here. boom there's that bulls eye. that's sunday at lunchtime. that's the heaviest rain. and then it moves through quickly. so again this model, i don't know if you watched last night but the models are coming together more and more. when they do and the timing becomes closer and closer. when they do get closer together that's when you start to think, this is going to happen. because when they sink up that's the best indication that they are on the rise. 66 in minlow park. 60 in pacifica. tomorrow dry, get stuff done whatever you want to do. that would be the day to go for

a hike, the bike ride whatever you are doing. sunday is the day you watch football, i don't know what other sports are going on. hockey is going on. but it's going to be one of those indoor days it's going to feel that way on sunday. with rain all day. especially in the north bay, it's going to move into the san jose by the afternoon. a rainy half of the weekend. >> pretty typical. >> not a rainy weekend. half. >> so it's 60% full. >> yeah. it has happened again. why nasa scrapped the final mission for discovery. and a risky rendezvous in space.

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nasa scientists are marveling at new pictures coming in. it sent back these detailed pictures taken from 435 miles away from the comet passing at a speed of 250-miles-per-hour. scientists call it the most expensive observation of a comet discovery. nasa says it's postponing the launch of discovery until the end of the month so it can fix the fuel leak. this is the fourth delay in one

week. >> about a 7-inch long crack, which means it's cracked and moved a little bit. that gives a place for ice to storm and that's not something we like to see. >> reporter: once nasa gives the okay, six astronauts will be on discovery heading to the international space station to deliver supplies and equipment. there is much more news just ahead. our top story, the sentencing of mehserle today and the protest going on right now in downtown oakland. also coming up -- >> reporter: i'm paul chambers live in oakland where the mehserle sentence has affected a concert here at the fox theater and another event. i'll tell you how and what to expect to see on the street, just ahead.

they gave him a slap in the wrist if that. >>' feels so sorry for the family. a controversial shooting comes with a controversial sentence. today bart police officer mehserle learned his fate and many people are not happy about it. >> plus a live look at news chopper two in downtown

oakland. what police are doing to keep people safe. it's a major event in oakland. good evening i'm julie haener. >> and i'm frank somerville. crowds are gathering right now to protest the sentence handed down today to former bart police officer mehserle. a los angeles county judge sentenced mehserle to two years in prison, that was the lowest amount of prison time possible and with credit for time served for killing oscar grant on new years day 2009, mehserle will have to serve about another six to even months behind bars. this is a look from news chopper 2 at the rally going on. and we have